Optical Transfer Function of a Binary Markovian Mixture

A system of differential equations describing the optical transfer function (OTF) of a binary Markovian mixture is considered in a small-angle approximation. Its analytical solution has been found for the case where the mixture components have different extinction and scattering coefficients but identical scattering indicatrixes. The results of investigation show that the optical transfer function of the binary Markovian mixture depends strongly on the dimensions of nonuniformities and on the difference between the optical parameters of the mixture components, but it always markedly exceeds the optical transfer function of a uniform medium.